JUST IN: Former Nigerian First Lady Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi Is Dead

JUST IN: Former Nigerian First Lady Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi Is Dead

Former Nigerian First Lady, Victoria Nwanyiocha Aguiyi-Ironsi, is dead.

Sources confirmed that she died at about 5.00pm Monday morning.

She was the widow of Gen. Johnson Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi who was the first Nigerian military head of state who was killed in Ibadan in] a countercoup led by Murtala Mohammed.

Born on 21st November, 1923 Lady Ironsi was the second First Lady of Nigeria from 16 January 1966 to 29 July 1996.

She married Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi as a student of Holy Rosary Convent School, Okigwe in 1953 at the aged of 16.

 

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